On Cchd Collection

Bishop David Ricken of Green Bay has announced the end of a moratorium on local collections for the Catholic Campaign for Human Development because of policy changes aimed at preventing grants to groups whose actions contradict Catholic teaching.

"I am confident that we have the necessary checks in place that will help us to be better informed and assist us in discerning grant requests properly," Bishop Ricken said in his seven-page Feb. 16 pastoral statement.

The bishop noted "significant disagreement" about some of the campaign's grants. Though the campaign has done "much good," a few organizations that received its funds acted in conflict with Catholic teaching or had direct connections to coalitions which acted in contradiction to Catholic principles of social justice. -Read More...